by John Freund, CM | Jun 7, 2013 | Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
This striking image which I entitle “Chapel of the Homeless” is one of the graphics from the Sidney Morning Herald’s story about the upcoming SVDP-sponsored CEO Sleepout on behalf of the homeless in Australia. The story...
by John Freund, CM | May 31, 2013 | Justice and Peace
Fast Company, a business magazine, offer these thoughts about Waste Land, an Oscar nominated documentary about an art world superstar and garbage pickers in one of the largest dumps in the world, that will change the way you think about chucking trash. (Stories about...
by John Freund, CM | May 27, 2013 | Daughters of Charity, Formation, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
A powerful 2 minute video used by a Vincentian systemic change project to reach 650,000 people on behalf the homeless in one day. The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in collaboration with Westminster Cathedral administer The Passage, London’s...
by John Freund, CM | May 6, 2013 | Formation
Gerald O’Collins SJ asks us to think about the way in which Jesus identified himself with the homeless, and took every opportunity to speak about and help them. When we consider that Jesus himself was homeless for much of his life, how does this challenge us to see...
by John Freund, CM | May 3, 2013 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Ordinary plastic grocery bags turned into sleeping mats for the homeless? Yes, you read that correctly. Watch this video on how to do this at home. I suspect you will never look at those plastic bags in the same way. Certainly in the category of “inventiveness...
